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In this issue:
Photography
State of the Art
Between Frames
Photography and the restless still life by Christy Lange
Books
Photography
Satire
Snappy Snaps
An excerpt from the introduction to the forthcoming treatise on photography by curator, philosopher, paparazzo, hedge-fund manager, mercenary and art critic Jean-Philippe Obu-Stevenson: Snappy Snaps: Irrigating the Re-Un-De-Framed Conceptual Contextual Medium Mediation of the Imaged Photographic Picture (Editions Obu-Stevenson, Schipol Airport, 2012)
Books
In These Intemperate Times
Photography
Point of View
A new book on the writing of Diane Arbus prompts a deeper understanding of her photographs by Lynne Tillman
Pretty, Pretty Good
Who, Me?
Narcissism is back in fashion by Jennifer Allen
Photography
Weekend Special
Studio International
Does digital media spell the end for portrait photographers in Africa? by Sean O’Toole
Art
Debate
Down with the Kids!
The contradictions of a youth-obsessed art world by Graham T. Beck
Film and Television
Philosophy
Tête-à-Tête
Erik Morse on the translation into English of a 52-part French TV programme featuring philosopher Gilles Deleuze by Erik Morse
Music
From the Ottoman diaspora to the musical influence of the Eastern Mediterranean, the early days of the record industry in New York by Sam Thorne
Photography
Books
From the failures of Roland Barthes to the joys of sustained looking, four new publications on photography by Brian Dillon
Life in Pictures: Chris Killip
The first of an occasional series in which frieze invites an artist, curator or writer to discuss the images that have influenced them
Photography
Depth of Focus
In recent years, a number of US-based artists have been taking new approaches to photography, emphasizing process, digital manipulation and the physical support by Chris Wiley
Art
Interview
On Display
Elad Lassry makes sculptures that, in his words, ‘happen to be photographs’. He talks about the relationship between objects, images and looking, the importance of the frame and the potential of ‘nervous pictures’ by Mark Godfrey
Photography
Out in the World
The intertwining of art and commercial photography is nowhere more evident than in the genre of still life by David Campany
Focus: Michael Dean
Symmetry, distance and intimacy; poetry, concrete and grass by Paul Teasdale
Focus: Pratchaya Phinthong
Luxury consumption and low-cost production; labour, exchange, weight and money by Barbara Casavecchia
Focus: Bouchra Khalili
The land and the sea; the mapping of clandestine journeys; the intertwining of personal stories and politics by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Focus
Focus: Helen Marten
A digital approach to sculpture and installation; physical comedy and the very recent past by Jörg Heiser
Interview
Photography
Set Pieces
Barbara Kasten has been creating inventive and influential images for more than 40 years. Artist Anthony Pearson talked to her about theatricality, her approach to photography and what it means to ‘think like a painter’ by Anthony Pearson
Monograph
Photography
All Other Images
When he died in 1992, Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri left behind a body of work characterized by its intimacy, humour and focus on both the world he lived in and the role of images within it by Christy Lange
Questionnaire: Alfredo Jaar
What is art for? Art is like the air we breathe. Nietzsche said that life without music would be a mistake. A life without art would be unlivable. Art is life. by Alfredo Jaar
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